Community Organizations

Concordia Cares builds relationships with local Orange County organizations. We believe in building sustainable programs that will make an indelible impact on the community. Below you’ll find a list of the organizations with which we’re proud to be affiliated.

The Illumination Foundation was founded in 2007 to break the cycle of Homelessness in Orange County. Concordia Cares volunteers help with community clean-ups and other projects at the Foundation’s Children’s Resource Center in Stanton, CA.

Ensure every kid fighting cancer has the support to Never Ever Give Up! We fulfill our mission by connecting with families, bringing awareness to their stories, offering them helpful resources and sending the entire family continual doses of encouragement throughout their journey.

Small groups from Concordia visit the Orange County Ronald McDonald House monthly to cook and serve a meal for the families living there. Volunteers also eat with the residents, giving our students a chance to connect with families from all over Southern California.

The amazing journey of a simple shoebox gift begins with you and results in evangelism, discipleship, and multiplication. From children to seniors, people pack shoebox gifts each year to bless children in need around the world. Parents often use the project to teach their kids about giving. Year-round volunteers support these efforts across the country.

With the help of our supporters and volunteers, Second Harvest Food Bank works through a network of 190 non-profit partner agencies and programs to provide wholesome food and fresh produce to more than 250,000 hungry children, seniors and families in Orange County every month.

Thinkers 4 Autism (T4A) is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization with a group of people dedicated to raising monies to provide a community with much needed services for families with children on the Autism Spectrum and Special Needs. Our goals are to provide families with respite care, winter/ Easter break care, after school programs and summer day camp. Our focus is to raise awareness and monies to provide our families these services at little to no cost with care to be provided to our children by caring loving and most importantly qualified people.

If your local organization is interested in building a relationship with Concordia Cares, please fill out the Organization Interest Form

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